391 - Chris McCandless ; 'Into The Wild'

Okay, it's time to find out the TRUTH about the Illuminati ... (confirmed?)This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 2:38 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout...

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The Ancient Egyptian city of Alexandria was regarded as the capital of knowledge and learning, all because of the city's great library that held documents from across the world. But what happened to i...

23 Loka 20241h 51min

Alexander The Great was crowned king of Macedon at twenty and went off to conquer the world... and he just kept going! One of the most epic stories from the ancient world, this is the seventh most vot...

16 Loka 20242h 49min

In the 1970s, a large family home in Amityville, New York was the site of a grisly mass murder - a year later the hauntings began! This is the story of one of the most famous haunted houses in the wor...

9 Loka 20241h 52min

To kick of BLOCK2024, we learn about the history of the Pinkerton Detective Agency, one of the first of its kind, with a varied and fascinating history. This is a comedy/history podcast, the report be...

2 Loka 20242h 14min

Ern Malley has become one of Australia's most famous and enduring poets. Celebrated by the Angry Penguins literature movement of the 1940s, it soon came to light that there was a small problem with mo...

25 Syys 20242h 34min

This week we take it in turns to report on the history of a different One Hit Wonder. We cover Louie Louie by The Kingsman, The Safety Dance by Men Without Hats and Who Let The Dogs Out by Baha Men. R...

18 Syys 20241h 51min

Hatshepsut is now recognised as the most successful woman to rule Egypt as pharaoh! Her story is a bit of a rollercoaster in life and also in death, as historians have changed the way they've seen her...

11 Syys 20242h 37min